Former PC admits selling secrets about John Terry’s mother to the Sun

An ex police officer has admitted selling secrets to the Sun newspaper about Chelsea footballer John Terry’s mother.

Former Surrey PC Alan Tierney, 40, pleaded guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office at the Old Bailey after he sold information about the arrests of the Blues captain’s mother and Rolling Stone member Ronnie Wood in 2009.

He admitted one count of the offence between March 26 and April 3, 2009, and the second between December 2 and 7, 2009.

Tierney, from Hayling Island, Hampshire, was released on bail to be sentenced on March 27. Mr Justice Fulford warned him that ‘all options remain open’.

Prison officer Richard Trunkfield, 31, from Moulton, Northamptonshire, also admitted leaking information about a high profile prisoner to the tabloid.

He pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office between March 2 and April 30, 2010.